“Unmasking Expectations: How Hyeseung Song’s ‘Docile’ Shatters the Stereotypes of the Perfect Asian Girl”
This is where the critical relationships within Hyeseung’s life become clear. Her Princeton grad student boyfriend, a selfless white man named Nate, ratchets up his need to care for Hyeseung, portending both the Nightingale Effect that leads to their marriage and Hyeseung’s ultimate decision to divorce Nate many years later. That relationship also contrasts with Hyeseung’s connections with her parents, particularly with her mother.
The relationship between the two women perplexes both Hyeseung and this reader for most of the book. The second chapter opens with a fight between her parents, one that Hyeseung witnesses with heart-wrenching pathos. When the seven-year-old protagonist tries to comfort her mother, there is ache all around:
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